Investigators used confidential informants in charging a Northampton County corrections officer with smuggling drugs and a cell phone into a prison inmate, according to court records released Monday.

Brian Keith Jenkins, 30, of the unit block of North Seventh Street in Easton is charged with one count each of providing a controlled substance to a confined person and providing a cell phone to a confined person. Jenkins was sent to Northampton County Prison under $45,000 bail, according to court records.

The investigation detailed in court records says confidential informants told authorities that Jenkins had smuggled in marijuana, synthetic marijuana, a bottle of whiskey and several cell phones.

Jenkins remains on paid administrative leave, according to county Director of Administration Luis Campos. In December 2014, Jenkins was earning $34,181.

According to court records filed by Trooper Michael Acevedo:

The allegations against Jenkins spanned from December through March.

In February, members of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and state police began an investigation into the smuggling of contraband into the prison by "one or more current and or former corrections officers."

Confidential informants told police that they had paid Jenkins $500 to smuggle a cell phone into the prison.

Authorities said one of those confidential informants was a "major distributor" of methamphetamine in Northampton and Lehigh counties who used a smuggled cell phone while at Northampton County Prison to arrange drug deals.

Jenkins allegedly smuggled on food trays. The prices for the alleged smuggled items included $300 for a pouch of tobacco and $200 for the whiskey.

Jenkins' arrest follows a crackdown on contraband following the appointment of Daniel Keen as corrections director in December. Four guards were suspended in May as part of a state and federal investigation into the prison, but were brought back at full pay.

Another guard was fired last year after being "implicated in two instances of contraband trafficking," according to a federal lawsuit regarding a prison stabbing. Ryan Kelly, the fired guard named in the federal suit, said he wasn't bringing in contraband but was delivering extra food to an inmate to whom he'd lost a sports bet.